>> Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that there are
>> times that you don't want to follow symlinks.

Yeah, there are. :-)

> So perhaps we should implement a "nosymlinks" mount option which
> would disable symlinks on a file system.

Wouldn't this be more useful as a per-process option, so that you could
do something like

(	cd /tmp
	shell-builtin-something symlink-follow=no
	find . -blah -blah -print0 | xargs -0 rm
)

in the daily cronjobs?  [Note the symlink-follow=no is done _after_ the
cd to /tmp - unless you don't want to clean out /tmp if the admin has
symlinked it somewhere else.]

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